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  • From: Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Animal Eating Cherries
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:18:26 -0400

I agree, its sounds like racoons. Clever, omnivorous, hands that can open latches (they have fingers), brains that can figure things out. Near where I live, there is a national park and many many protected racoons. You kill one, the next one follows, and there is a saying that the next racoon can smell on the tracks of the previous racoon the meal that the previous dead racoon had.
Believe or not, they actually pull open corn cobs to check whether the corn is ripe. Not ripe?, they leave it for another day and move on to the next plant.... Racoons are the only animals that I have ever shot out of exasperation!
 
Hélène, zone 3-4
 
 
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Animal Eating Cherries

That's a perfect description of raccoon scat.
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On Jul 4, 2007, at 9:13 PM, ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN wrote:

What kind of apparently nocturnal animal is eating cherries?  The waste looks like a dog's waste, a small dog.  I saw this last year too.  I walk around outside and see these do do's with a bunch of cherry pits in them, about 70% cherry pits.  I assume the animal goes around and picks up the cherries the birds knock down.  I have never seen them do it so I don't know for sure how the animal gets the cherries.
 
Thanks,
Bob
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